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‘No state could abridge those privileges or immunities, or deny any person due process or the equal protection of the law.’

‘So I think we have an obligation to make sure that her rights are not in any way abridged.’

‘I have the right to free speech, for example, and you can ask me to apologize for anything I say that offends you, and that request would have no bearing on whether my freedom of speech was being abridged.’

‘The evidence clearly shows that the city's police powers are not abridged in any manner and that the agreement is expressly subject to the remedies available to the city under the Omaha Municipal Code.’

‘For example, according to the First Amendment, Congress shall make no law abridging free speech.’

Origin

Middle English (in the sense ‘deprive of’): from Old French abregier, from late Latin abbreviare ‘cut short’ (see abbreviate).